Welcome

Ecologies in Practice a multi-faceted project including a book, a podcast series, workshops and more

BOOK:

Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada is an edited collection is co-edited by Amanda White and Elysia French and published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press (2024). It features multi-formatted contributions from artists, curators and scholars that explore the ways in which cultural production informs perceptions, communications, and knowledge of environmental distress in a Canadian context.

PODCAST:

The Ecologies in Practice podcast series is a public program of conversations motivated by the ideas and concepts in the book. Season 1 will launch in January 2025, bringing together thinkers, makers, and doers from art, science, theory, and practice around pressing environmental issues. Join us as we navigate these complex topics and hear from a vibrant mix of artists, experts, and community members, all united in their quest to tackle environmental challenges, aiming to inspire change.

WORKSHOPS:

Coming Soon!

Our current work is based out of the Centre for Sustainable Curating at the Department of Visual Arts at Western University.

We acknowledge that Western University is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton Nations, on lands connected with the London Township and Sombra Treaties of 1796 and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum.

With this, we respect the longstanding relationships that Indigenous Nations have to this land, as they are the original caretakers. We acknowledge historical and ongoing injustices that Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) endure in Canada, and we accept responsibility as a public institution to contribute toward revealing and correcting miseducation as well as renewing respectful relationships with Indigenous communities through our teaching, research and community service.